Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

We vivisect the nightingale
To probe the secret of his note.

"They fail, and they alone, who have not striven."

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.